Darren Scott axed from Supersport & Jacaranda FM
With the World Cup only 3 days away it looks as if Supersports studio team will be a man short.
Word on the street is that Darren Scott has been axed from BOTH Supersport & Jacaranda after a racial slur over the weekend. According to Channel24, he swore at colleague and made racist remarks at the Mabula lodge in Bela-Bela on Friday evening during a team building event
According the Jacaranda site, he handed in his “resignation” earlier today from his very popular morning show, which sounds like it has completely changed the stations audience. - http://www.jacarandafm.com/kagiso/content/en/jacaranda/jacaranda-lifes-greatest-hits?oid=1357983&sn=Detail&pid=756865
And according the Supersport site, Scott was “relieved” of his presenting duties, indefintely, after the incident - http://www.supersport.com/press-releases/news/110907/Statement_on_Darren_Scott
Interesting times ahead. My money. It won’t be long before we hear Darren’s voice on 2OceansVibe Radio.
(edit: I been asked by some of the readers to clarify what I mean in the above statement. Not that I have to, but thought I would anyway. My statement simply states that a lot of the “greats” of South African Radio are moving to online radio. Given that 2OV radio is one of the first online radio stations in the country, and has already snapped up some big names in SA Radio, I insinuated that Darren would be a good addition to the already fantastic line-up. In retrospect and given what he said, I suppose it may not be THE best decision, but if you look past at what happened and what great personality & presenter he really is, he would most probably be a great addition to the team. Pure speculation. Case closed)
New Cutting Jade – “Crazy” Video
My good friends from the awesome band Cutting Jade (remember them, 10 Seconds) have just released their latest video for the song “Crazy“
The song comes off their latest album, “From Nothing” and feautrs a rather, well, Crazy Video. Check it out !
Keep an eye out for the new Cutting Jade website launching soon
Create awesome contact forms with Formsly
I been chatting to the guys over at Formsly, a Cape Town based startup, over the last couple of weeks about their fantastic contact form product.
Basically for $0.99 a month, you can create a professional looking contact form to your site. No coding experience or HTML knowledge is needs, and you use the formsly interface to setup your contact form. Once that is done, they give you some code, which you simply paste into your website. Really is simple !
Some of the features that formsly offers include:
- Smart Email Forms
Let users choose which department to send their email to, opt-in for a newsletter, and have your emails all securely backed up - Maps, Directions, & GPS
Integrate Google Maps and street view, automatically generate a GPS waypoint, and provide printable or animated directions to your business premises. - Social Media Integration
Interact with your customers by adding links to all your social media profiles, a QR vcard, as well as displaying your Twitter feed. - Analytics & HTML Widgets
Track which pages of your website are triggering contact, and intergrate your HTML widgets such as Live Support. - No Coding. Seamless Integration
Configure a great Contact Page to match the color scheme of you website without knowing any code at all. - List Multiple Locations
If you have multiple stores, offices, or branches, you can list each individual location and provide directions to each premises
I used formsly to setup a contact form for our iPhone Repair site, FiXi. So far, the response has been incredible, with the amount of contacts we have recieved. Because the form is so easy to use, and I was able to chose what I wanted on the form, it makes it simple for the reader of the site to use. The cool thing about formsly is that you are able to customise the appearance of the form & elements as well. So if you need the form to be a specific colour, or font etc, you can do that.
If you looking for a contact form for your site or company, I highly recommend Formsly, and at only $0.99 a month it’s a bargain !!
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Woolworths climbs on the QR code bandwagon
As you may know I have always been a huge fan of QR codes and the potential they offer. Slowly but surely South African companies are climbing on the QR code bandwagon, and using it to promote their brands.
But I was very pleasantly surprised on Saturday to see Woolworths have also started using QR codes to promote their latest sale, by displaying a huge QR Code poster on the store window.
The code resolves back to a .mobi site, which gives you more info about the sale. You can also watch a video of the TV ad promoting the sale. They did suggest Beetagg reader on the poster as well as the direct URL (woolworthssa.mobi). That said, the mobi site doesn’t have too much information about the actual sale. From the poster one would have thought you would have seen what is exactly on sale. Another thing they could have done, although not a biggie, is to have a specific url per store to see how many sucessfull each stores campaign was.
All in all though, well done to Woolworths, and I’m looking forward to see what they come up with next in the QR code arena !
See how moral you are with the Moral Experiment
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About 2 weeks ago, I came across a site called the Moral Experiment, run by John Bushell, who is based here in Durbs. The Moral Experiment is exactly what it says. It’s an experiment to see how moral we as humans really are. The Moral Experiment is a totally new & revolutionary concept on the internet & is designed to harness the power of your online social network. The site was also featured on Mashable this morning !
The objective of the Moral Experiment could best be described in the following scenario: If you came into some money that was not meant for you, what would you do with it? Would you keep it all, or would you give it to a worthy cause? Or possibly both? The Moral Experiment is designed to try and understand our choice. Do demographics (religion, race, age, sex, education, etc) influence our decisions? To get a better idea of how the Moral Experiment works ->
- Jane joins the Moral Experiment, and pays subscription fee of £1. You can also chose a 6 month or 12 month subscription. Payment is done through PayPal
- Jane then encourages her friends to also join the Experiment by giving them a unique URL to sign up with.
- When Jane’s friends join the Moral Experiment, she will keep her friend’s subscription fee.
- Jane then decides what she will do with this cash. Keep it? Give it to charity? Or both? Within two friend referrals to the Moral Experiment Jane as made her original £1 back and is now in profit.
Jane’s choice is totally anonymous, only she knows what she has chosen to do with her ‘Moral Earnings’. Her general demographics (religion, race, age, sex, education, etc) are fed into the Moral Experiments results, and this data is presented as group data that can be viewed on the web site. Are younger people more charitable than older people? Are women more giving then men? The Moral Experiment is designed to be insightful, fun, and possibly even controversial.
You can also watch this video to get a better idea of how the Moral Experiment works. I signed up the other day, and I am really impressed with the interface and how the experiment is layed out. I’m def gonna be keeping my eye on this one to see how it all pans out, as well as to see how moral people really are.
It only costs £1 and there is no obligation to continue. If you keen to give it a bash, you can sign up here
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